9/11 September 11, 2001 by Anonymous

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Who: Anonymous
What: 9/11 attacks
When: September 11, 2001
Where: Viewpoint from Ontario, Canada

Oakville, Ontario, Canada

I remember September 11, 2001 fondly, it happened during my first week of high school, I had no clue what went on during the entire day of school. I had been busily going about my business at school. My father came to pick me up from school and while driving home he mentioned to me that two planes smashed into the World Trade Center in New York. At first, I couldn't believe it, I immediately denied what I was hearing thinking it was a very terrible joke, but then he said this was no joke. As soon as I got home I turned on the TV and practically every channel covered the news and I could not believe what I was witnessing. Immediately many questions came to mind, I wondered if the planes might have lost contact and some how lost altitude and hit the towers.

Then I realized that there were two more planes, one that slammed into The Pentagon and the other that crashed in Pennsylvania. I was so sad and angry at the bastards that slammed those planes into the city where I grew up. I waited for the President to address the Nation on television. Though I do not agree with President Bush at all now, at the time I needed leadership and I needed comfort and he delivered it, I feel happy to hear someone take the pulse of the Nation and put it into words.

For the next few days I reflected and could not believe what had happened. The world was about to change, at the time I did not want to fly. But soon, I did gather up the courage to do those things. I prayed for the families who had been affected by this tragedy, and for the brave police officers and fire fighters.

I hope by reading this you did get a sense of a foreigner's point of view from what I say.

Co-opted from Wikipedia's Personal Experiences Page